This year will be our first Katina Alms Giving Festival at Dakkhina Dhammatthala. To be eligible for a Katina robe, there should have been 5 Bhikkhunis staying here, whereas we are lucky to have even one Bhikkhuni! However, the people are still free to have an “Alms Giving Festival” to support and celebrate their one Read the full article…
On Sunday 18th of September, the three Bhikkhunis who had been “Ordained on One Side” by the Bhikkhuni Sangha at Santi Forest Monastery in NSW, presented themselves to the Bhikkhu Sangha at Bodhinyana Monastery in Western Australia. Ayya Vajira, Ayya Dhammavati and Ayya Santacari received ordination from the Bhikkhu Sangha headed by Ajahn Brahmavamso with Read the full article…
Santacārī’s Bhikkhunī Ordination Sunday September 4th 2016 Ayya Santacārī was fortunate to be able to have her Bhikkhunī ordination Upasampada last Sunday. She is now “ordained on one side” until she and the other two newly ordained Bhikkhunīs visit the monks at Bodhinyana monastery where they will have their ordination “confirmed”. It was a very special Read the full article…
It was so lovely to have Ayya Nirodha visit last week, in the lead up to Ayya Santacari’s Higher Ordination [Upasampada] next month at Santi and Bodhinyana. You are welcome and invited to attend Ayya’s ordination at Santi if you are able. You can find the invitation to attend the ordination and more information here on their Read the full article…
Ayya Nirodha has been visiting for three days now and things are going very nicely. Yesterday we were taken up into the Adelaide Hills by Michelle the secretary of the Buddhist Society of SA. We had a lovely scenic drive and then Ayya was able to visit a friend of hers while Michelle took me Read the full article…
The Buddhist Society of SA [BSSA] and I have been inviting nuns to visit us here in Adelaide. So we are raising funds to build a little wooden kuti to provide accommodation for visiting monastics. Even more good news! We have a young Australian lady who wishes to train to become a nun and it is our intention that Read the full article…
Tomorrow my new Bhikkhuni teacher, Ayya Nirodha from Santi Forest Monastery, arrives in Adelaide for a 5 day visit. She is coming to spend time with me and to see my situation here. Naturally she wants to know that I am well supported here and I want to take every opportunity to receive teaching from Read the full article…
You are invited to join with us to celebrate the higher ordination of Ayya Santacari Bhikkhuni and to honour the 2600 anniversary of the founding of the Bhikkhuni order by the Buddha. To do this we will be having a full day [daylong] meditation retreat program. It will be the first time we have held Read the full article…
The Precious Opportunity to take Upasampada [Higher Ordination] has arisen for Santacari. It is a rare and precious thing to be able to take higher ordination as a fully ordained female monk [Bhikkhuni] in the Theravadan tradition. At this time in the world there are thousands of billions of people and perhaps a few million Read the full article…
Today the Buddhist Society of South Australia held its AGM at the Uniting church hall in Kensington Gardens. Ayya Santacari started off the day with a Dhamma talk about the awesome qualities of the Buddha. She also discussed AN 10.51 the sutta about training “Ones Own Mind”; Training the mind to discern between 10 beneficial Read the full article…
